I live in a kind of controlled awareness. I wouldn't call it fear, but it's an awareness. I know I have a responsibility to behave in a certain way. I'm able to do that.

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

Having a dream is what keeps you alive. Overcoming the challenges makes life worth living.

You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.

I'm an experienced woman; I've been around. ... Well, all right, I might not've been around, but I've been ... nearby.

Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow.

Behind every beautiful fur, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric story.

A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed.

There's one beneficial effect of going to Moscow. You come home waving the American flag with all your might.

Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.

I've had the fame and the joy of getting laughter - those are gifts.

I'd never met coffee that wasn't wonderful. It was just a matter of how wonderful it was.

Everything is in a state of becoming more then it is

One soul, the Saviour, changes the course of history.

Who you are married to determines what your future will look like

If you could stretch a given minute, what would you find between its unstuck components? Probably some kind of astral madness. A bleak comprehension of the final size of things.

The erotic is a resource within each of us that lies in a deeply female and spiritual plane, firmly rooted in the power of our unexpressed or unrecognized feeling. . . .

Truly, as the ancients taught us, there is nothing under the moon, however fine, that is not subject to corruption.

And all poets love dust and mist because all the last answers. Go running back to dust and mist.

I don't want awards, I want my daughter. I wouldn't exchange a single eyelash of my daughter for the whole world.

I've spent my fortune, tarnished my public view and made myself the brunt of punch line after punch line.